A British man whose son was allegedly bitten by a fox has faced harassment and threats after he had police shoot and kill the fox in question.
Peter Day, 45, made news in Great Britain in February when a fox apparently entered his home and attacked his 10 month old son, Louis. Day called in a pest control specialist who trapped and killed the fox. Day lives in an area where residents have made numerous complaints about the rather sizable fox population.
Day and his partner, Sue Eastwood, came under criticism from animal experts who maintained that a healthy fox would never enter a residential home and attack an infant (though some experts did allow that an injured or diseased animal might engage in such behavior).
Since reporting the attack and having the animal trapped and killed, Day says he has been confronted repeatedly by people who believe he and his partner made the whole story up, and recently received a letter calling him and his partner an “odious, lying, self-serving manipulative scumbags” and threatening to firebomb his car and smash the windows in his home.
The pest control specialist who trapped the animal was also sent a copy of the letter.
Source:
Fox-hater’s family gets letter threats. Toby Nation, This Is London, February 25, 2003.